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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is on the record album that David is playing?
(a) Luke playing trombone.
(b) Luke playing trumpet.
(c) Dizzy Gillespie.
(d) David playing piano.

2. Who defends Margaret to the others in Act II?
(a) David.
(b) Sister Moore.
(c) Luke.
(d) Odessa.

3. In Act II Sister Boxer and Margaret argue about the difference between having trumpets and drums in church and what?
(a) Pianos in nightclubs.
(b) Brother Boxer driving a liquor truck so he can contribute more money.
(c) Margaret leaving her husband.
(d) Using offering money to travel.

4. When the characters who were talking in the kitchen at the beginning of Act II exit to the church, who comes into the home?
(a) Ida.
(b) A thief.
(c) Margaret.
(d) David.

5. When Margaret was delivering their baby, where was Luke?
(a) In a nightclub.
(b) On the road.
(c) Drunk and at her bedside.
(d) In jail.

6. Where is Bishop Williams' church located?
(a) 51st Street.
(b) 145th Street.
(c) 63rd Avenue.
(d) Next to Central Park.

7. What character brings up the costs of operating a church during Act II?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Odessa.
(c) Sister Moore.
(d) Sister Douglass.

8. Three women are in the kitchen when Act II begins. Who else is in the scene?
(a) Margaret.
(b) David.
(c) Luke.
(d) Brother Boxer.

9. Who says, "he dying in his sins" during Act II?
(a) Brother Boxer.
(b) Sister Moore.
(c) Sister Boxer.
(d) Odessa.

10. Who leaves to look for David in Act II?
(a) Odessa.
(b) Brother Boxer.
(c) Sister Boxer.
(d) Margaret.

11. Why didn't David know much about his father's musical career?
(a) David thought his father was dead.
(b) David didn't have a phonograph to listen to his records.
(c) David didn't know his father was a musician.
(d) David thought his father was in jail.

12. Who says, "You play piano like I dreamed you would" to David in Act II?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Brother Boxer.
(c) Luke.
(d) Odessa.

13. In Act II, when does David say that he stopped believing?
(a) When some men approached him about playing music.
(b) When he turned 18.
(c) When he started going to music school.
(d) When he started lying to his mother.

14. Who mentions David leaving home?
(a) Odessa.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Luke.
(d) David.

15. Who mentions a "heart black with sorrow" in Act II?
(a) Sister Boxer.
(b) Luke.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Sister Moore.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Act II, which character mentioned going to Philadelphia with her husband, Herman?

2. Who asks if drums and trumpets in church isn't worldly?

3. Luke thinks Margaret is treating David like he's how old in Act II?

4. Who says, "The whole world just get to be a great big empty basin"?

5. What hope did Luke reveal to David during Act II?

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